Comments on: Have You Ever ‘Paid It Forward’?http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/have-you-ever-paid-it-forward/
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By: Gianinahttp://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/have-you-ever-paid-it-forward/comment-page-2/#comment-1598033
Wed, 02 Apr 2014 22:34:36 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/have-you-ever-paid-it-forward/#comment-1598033Well; in my case as I am studying languages, I would like to start helping my classmates with difficulties they may have related with languages. So that they would follow the example and could help other classmates.
]]>By: Domoniquehttp://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/have-you-ever-paid-it-forward/comment-page-2/#comment-1595496
Tue, 01 Apr 2014 04:48:37 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/have-you-ever-paid-it-forward/#comment-1595496I would not necessarily say that I do things for others because someone has done something nice for me. I do nice things for other people because I know it is the right thing to do and it’s nice. The things that I do to assist other people I would just call being polite. Nothing more. Nothing less. I don’t think it is right for people to have to deal with anything on their own. People need help whether it is just picking up something for people or helping with another problem. Stranger or not.
]]>By: Fauston Rhttp://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/have-you-ever-paid-it-forward/comment-page-2/#comment-1595357
Tue, 01 Apr 2014 02:10:10 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/have-you-ever-paid-it-forward/#comment-1595357I have never personally “paid it forward,” however, the idea is heart warming and fun. I’m a “pay it back” type of person where if someone does something nice for me I often either do something to pay that person back. It’s just not usually in my mindset to pay something forward. Overall, when someone does something nice for me I like to do an act for them right back, not for the person behind me. However, I do think the “paying it forward” method is a good way to spread happiness and it also demonstrates the peace within the world.
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Mon, 31 Mar 2014 22:13:34 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/have-you-ever-paid-it-forward/#comment-1595160I LOVE this idea or action of ‘paying it forward’. My mom and I have done it quite a few times in the grocery store when the people behind us only have a few things. The first time we did it the people behind us were a mother and daughter. They only had maybe five items and the mom started balling when my mom had their stuff rung up with ours. Her and her daughter had just moved that day after a very bad divorce. You never know what other people are going though and something as simple as paying for someones groceries or chickfila meal might make their day a lot better, not to mention how good you are going to feel knowing you helped someone. I would love to be part of a ‘pay it forward’ chain at some point in my life or maybe even start one. I love this so much and I hope this becomes more popular.
]]>By: Fade Ahttp://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/have-you-ever-paid-it-forward/comment-page-2/#comment-1586998
Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:27:39 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/have-you-ever-paid-it-forward/#comment-1586998I have had someone in front of me in a drive-through window twice before. Last summer, my youth minister challenged us to do this as much as we could as well. I was extremely grateful when this happened to me and I was happy to see others happy as well. With or without others helping I think that if I see someone in need, I would do as such as I could to help.
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Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:27:02 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/have-you-ever-paid-it-forward/#comment-1580166i helped a woman she drop all of her stuff and i helped her pick it up
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Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:56:15 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/have-you-ever-paid-it-forward/#comment-1580052I remember one day standing at the bus stop when an old lady was counting her coins for the bus and she was 20 cents short so I gave her the coins but now I was the one who need 20 cents haha a lady next to me asked, do you need 20 cents? And I told her “yes” she gave me the 20 cents. I believe if you have the chance to help other people, do it, you never know when you going to needed. Well I consider myself as a helper person but most of the times I help my family very rare I have the chance to help strangers. Sometimes if I see a homeless in the street I give them money.
]]>By: LKhalifa41http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/have-you-ever-paid-it-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-1578244
Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:05:37 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/have-you-ever-paid-it-forward/#comment-1578244I personally and a huge supporter in paying it forward and the kindness movement. I go to the kindess festival every year and have so much fun. I pay for people behind me at tolls and at fast food chains, but there is one person who just recently has done something great for my family. We struggle with money yet my mother still hands out money to those less fortunate than us. This man is sending me and my family to universal studios in california for two weeks and paying for everything, food, shopping, hotel, tickets, everything. Reason being is that my mother talked to him and counseled him for one night. He is a veteran and he wanted to give my mother something special. You never know how much you can impact someones life with just a smile or a wave, or paying for some behind you or someones breakfast at a restaurant or just giving a homeless person a granola bar or something. you could save someones life or change the way there day is headed. I think this, “a customer paid for her order and then picked up the tab for the stranger in the car behind her in line. Then that customer paid the bill for the following customer in line — and so on, for the next 226 customers, in a three-hour sequence of spontaneous generosity.” is absolutely amazing and it gaves me faith in humans.
]]>By: TaylorBhttp://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/have-you-ever-paid-it-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-1577020
Mon, 24 Mar 2014 00:34:17 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/have-you-ever-paid-it-forward/#comment-1577020To be perfectly honest, i can’t remember the last time a stranger did something nice for me. i think that life can be such a blur and we need to slow down and think about all the kind deeds that we could be doing or that others are doing for us. One of my favorite things to do is wave to people in the road just to say ‘hello’ and it feels wonderful even if they don’t wave back. I think that others tend to do a good deed for others if they witness someone else doing a good deed. In my opinion, this is due to a human’s need to fit in and not be vulnerable- assisting someone else makes you vulnerable as the kind flight attendants always tell you “be sure you adjust your oxygen mask before you help someone else with theirs.” This is an analogy to the emotional feeling of helping someone- some people do it naturally while others need a push in the assisting direction. If I were to start a ‘pay it forward’ chain, i would try and do any kind deed and hope that it passed along because a kind deed is a kind deed; I don’t believe that any of the deeds in the chain have to be the exact same thing.
]]>By: Isabelle Fhttp://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/have-you-ever-paid-it-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-1571785
Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:40:06 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/have-you-ever-paid-it-forward/#comment-1571785A few months ago my mom told me that she was about to pay for her food when the cashier told her that someone had already paid for her. The cashier handed her a crumpled paper that explained a ‘pay it forward’ type of thing that this radio station was doing. I imagine that the paper had traveled a lot before it met the hands of my mom and will continue to travel more after my mom gave it to another cashier and paid it forward for someone else. It amazes me that as Tsvetkova and Macy reported, “a Chick-fil-A in Houston experienced a 67-car chain.” I recently learned in Psychology that it is true that “receiving and observing generosity can both significantly increase your likelihood of being generous toward a stranger.” I think the pay it forward programs that a lot of companies and radio stations are doing provide nothing but good for the world. It goes to show that we are all people and even though we are strangers, we have the ability to start an unstoppable chain of receiving and giving. That is a powerful thing.
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